I am finally starting to feel a like I am settling into life here in Japan. I moved into my apartment about 2 weeks ago and am working on making it feel homey and reflect my personality. I have been a shopping maniac buying everything from a bed and couch to tv, computer, curtains, pots and pans...pretty much everything one needs to make a home a home. Here are some pictures a couple days after I moved in with all the government loaner furniture; I will post more once I get the furniture I purchased delivered and have all my stuff from storage in early to mid-December.
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| My living room |
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| From my living room looking towards the dining room |
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| My tatami room, it has a floor made of tatami mats and is great to do yoga on |
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| My temporary bedroom until the bed I purchased arrived. If you come visit me, this will be your room |
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| My kitchen |
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| My pantry/oven area |
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| The shower room |
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| My fabulous toilet room complete with a heated toilet seat, white noise, puffs of air and spritzes of water |
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| The master bedroom |
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| The office/storage room |
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| My genkan entryway with ample built-in show storage |
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| My favorite thing...the view |
Beside moving into my apartment, I have been adventuring and exploring. I went to a pottery studio and made this bowl. I will pick it up tomorrow.
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| My bowl |
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| We picked purple sweet potatoes with the family that runs the pottery studio |
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| The sweet potatoes we just picked made into Daigakuimo....glazed sweet potatoes. They are oishi! |
Sasebo hosted a national dance competition and I was able to see a number of groups perform. They danced all over town and the performers ranged from toddlers to adults. It was memorizing to watch them perform!
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| Yokosai Dance Competition |
I also went on a trip south a couple hours to Shimabasa and Obama. In Shimabasa, I went on a dolphin watching trip and in Obama I visited the longest foot onsen (spa) in Japan. It was a great day trip and I loved seeing some landscape and scenery.
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| My fashionable Japanese life jacket |
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| A mama and baby dolphin |
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| The pod of dolphins right next to our boat. |
A few things I have lined up for the next few weeks are making a glass Ornament, going to a fire festival, attending a Sumo competition and more!
